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Published in: Current Pain and Headache Reports 5/2016

01-05-2016 | Other Pain (N Vadivelu and A Kaye, Section Editors)

New Chronic Pain Treatments in the Outpatient Setting: Review Article

Authors: R. Grandhe, D. Souzdalnitski, K. Gritsenko

Published in: Current Pain and Headache Reports | Issue 5/2016

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Abstract

Chronic pain is an issue encountered by many health care providers in their routine clinical practice. In addition to generalized patient suffering, this condition has significant clinical, psychological, and socioeconomic impact due to its widespread occurrence. The landscape of chronic pain management has been changing rapidly with an array of treatment innovations, better understanding of established therapies, and care coordination across specialties. In this article, we have reviewed emerging new modalities as well as transformation of established therapies by interventional, pharmacologic, rehabilitative, psychological, complimentary, and interdisciplinary approaches.
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Metadata
Title
New Chronic Pain Treatments in the Outpatient Setting: Review Article
Authors
R. Grandhe
D. Souzdalnitski
K. Gritsenko
Publication date
01-05-2016
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Current Pain and Headache Reports / Issue 5/2016
Print ISSN: 1531-3433
Electronic ISSN: 1534-3081
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-016-0563-y

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